G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

Delta Cep

Delta Cep is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cepheus 865 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,348 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,443× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 865 years ago.

865 lybrightness mag 4.07G2Ibvar

Also catalogued as HR 8571 · HD 213306 · HIP 110991

5,348 K

temperature

4.07

apparent magnitude

1,443× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2Ibvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

865 years

at light speed from Earth

0.93×

as hot as the Sun

1,443×

the Sun's light output

-3.05

absolute magnitude

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Delta CepG-type

Sky regionCepheusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.